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Even if you were to get it, what would that change? The culture of consumer exploitation would still be there. How do you change something that's been a cultura
by throwaway815190 6y ago
Even if you were to get it, what would that change? The culture of consumer exploitation would still be there. How do you change something that's been a cultural cornerstone for over a century?
- seigando 6y agoThat's what justice and reparations means to me. Changing the culture.
- Nasrudith 6y agoThat implies punishing people but neither the crime nor the workable alternatives have been clearly established. "Exploitation" is a word so overused and often paired with many economic fallacies including feudal ones that merchants had to be ripping people off to make a profit because of the cost of transport plus a "universal fixed price" assumption.
- seigando 6y ago...I mean if someone is dependent on your service and there aren't viable alternatives or a means of making a viable alternative, and your pricing is exploitative and meant to siphon away customer's money so you can get rich at their expense, maybe the issue is that you don't believe 'exploitation' exists because of how much you love money over regular people.
- throwaway815190 6y agoThose are not the definitions of those words. Neither Justice nor reparations are designed to change the culture. In fact, they're designed to do the opposite: maintain the status quo.
- mcphage 6y agoThey’re designed to make the status quo untenable, not maintain it.
- throwaway815190 6y agoJustice exists to prevent chaos and restore order. How does that make the status quo untenable?
- mcphage 6y agoBecause when companies make decisions, they'll need to think, "will this decision cause states to seek $2.2 trillion from me?"
- throwaway815190 6y agoAgain, how does that make the status quo untenable? It hasn't done much to hinder google's operations in Europe.
- colechristensen 6y agomoving towards post scarcity economies where people aren’t struggling to acquire what they need and what they want so the motivation to do things isn’t sales numbers and profit margins
- throwaway815190 6y agoHow?
- colechristensen 6y agoenact laws to make real estate a really bad investment to stop capital costs of existing being sucked away from everywhere start nonprofit companies in many sectors that lean heavily on automation and sell at cost direct to consumers open sourced/open designed products
- throwaway815190 6y agoLet me know how that goes for you.